What do you feel are the best Batman and Robin stories?

[Spider-Kurt!]

Featuring any version of Batman's partners.

 

[MaskedManJRK]

All-Star Ba--*sees mob rushing towards me*--uh...nevermind.

Anyway:

Dick: Dark Victory
Jason: The Cult

 

[Joker]

All-Star Ba--*sees mob rushing towards me*--uh...nevermind.

Anyway:

Dick: Dark Victory
Jason: The Cult

you stole the joke I was going to make ...but I'm gonna seriously say I do like ASB&R...I dont care what you all say ...also, Dark Victory as stated...and A Death In the Family

 

[MaskedManJRK]

you stole the joke I was going to make ...but I'm gonna seriously say I do like ASB&R...I dont care what you all say ...also, Dark Victory as stated...and A Death In the Family

Yeah, same here. It may be because I'm just a Frank Miller ****e and enjoy most of the stuff he does, but I think it's pretty good--the only thing I don't like are the long-ass delays. I seriously think if it wasn't so late all the time, more people would enjoy it.

 

[Joker]

I've liked everything I've read by Miller except the Dark Knight books...what he did to the Joker in DKR pissed me off, and the mutants were s**t. Year One was awesome though, and ASB&R is awesome as just Batman taken to the most extreme place you could possibly take him without having him like, eat people or something

 

[JTStarkiller]

Haven't read much, but Face the Face is one I liked. Had a great ending between Batman and Robin.

 

[Cobblepot]

The Gauntlet was pretty good and so was Full Circle.

 

[CConn]

Although it featured mostly Robin (obviously), Robin: Year One is the best story I've read so far involving Batman and Dick as Robin.

 

[Spider-Kurt!]

Although it featured mostly Robin (obviously), Robin: Year One is the best story I've read so far involving Batman and Dick as Robin.

Basically what is that and the Gauntlet about?

 

[MaskedManJRK]

All Star Batman and Robin could've been something good. A nice Jim Lee/Frank Miller origin story to Dick Grayson that could possibly become post-IC canonical. It really could've been an interesting and good thing. I think Frank tried too hard to make the Dark Knight a total hardass that he got so far away from the character. I will admit it is a very "real worldly" meeting of the two characters. I don't care for how Frank had him kidnap Dick. Makes Bruce look too much like a terrorist pedophile. I perfer the canonical meeting from Dark Victory how he becomes *****' foster parent. Shows Bruce as the hero that he is.

Just so you know--Miller has said in interviews that this is a Batman that is still pretty green, and will make mistakes. Generally, it means that Batman realizes that he's f**king up and redeems himself in the end.

Essentially, it's another "Batman needs Robin to keep him from going crazy" story, amped up to further prove it.

 

[droogiedroogie2]

Dick - Dark Victory, The Gauntlet
Jason - A Death In The Family, Hush/The Many Return of Jason Todd Arcs/Batman Annual 25
Tim - A Lonely Place of Dying, The End of Robin?, War Games, Identity Crisis, Superman-Batman 26
Stephanie - War Drums (only story featuring her, really)